Re: copyright and student notes taken in class...

From: <Lance.Purple[_at_]netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 07:37:36 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Christopher Gwyn <chris[_at_]icopyright.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 30, 1999, Shelly Warwick <swarwick[_at_]sprynet.com> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if universities should amend their governance provisions
> > so that students who provide notes for a website or via a website
> > are subject to disciplinary action (failing the course? suspension?
> > dismissal?).
>
> how is this intrinsically different from a student sharing
> (compensated or not) his or her notes with a student who was
> not able to attend class or who was unable to take notes?

The other students in that class have -paid- the university to be allowed to hear those lectures. You, I, and everyone else on Earth with WWW access, probably have not.

Lance Purple

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